Both reports slapped the restaurant for many of the same major violations, including a failure of employees to properly wash their hands; the presence of insects, rodents, or animals; incompetent management; and food improperly separated and protected.

To illustrate the finding that management lacked basic know-how and didn’t perform duties, health inspectors wrote “When two (persons in charge) were asked what the proper cooked temperature of chicken was they were not able to answer and one asked if they were supposed to take the temperature.”

Inspectors also found flies buzzing around the sushi bar and hibachi grill this week, labeling it a repeat violation.

The restaurant, at 220 Eisenhower Drive, will remain closed until management can show the health department it has addressed the violations listed in the reports, said Todd Jones, director of environmental health for the Chatham County Health Department.

After a preliminary hearing Friday, the health department will decide whether to continue the suspension or allow the restaurant to reopen.

A manager at Hibachi who declined to give his name said the restaurant is “in the process of working things out,” adding “hopefully we’ll be reopened Friday after the hearing.”